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[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Update on the ISU-122s's D-25s gun. It was a 122 mm weapon using both high explosive and amour piercing rounds in a one piece shell.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

The ground crew of A-36A 42-84067 527th Fighter-Bomber Squadron 86th Fighter Bomber Group

 

[Airframes]

Post #11,392 - "Zo, you thought it a good idea to camouflage der trees to look like a Panzer, hein? I should beat you mit mein stick here !"

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

A crew assigned to the 398th Bomb Group poses with a B-17 during stateside training, Salt Lake City, Utah. The crew would be shot down on a raid against V-1 rocket launch sites on 8 July 1944
Source: usaac-official

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

PBY Gunner

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

The 618th Bombardment Squadron was activated in 1943 as one of the four squadrons of the 477th Bombardment Group, the first (and only) bombardment group in the United States Army Air Forces to included black pilots. Members of the squadron participated in the Freeman Field Mutiny, protesting racial segregation in the military. The squadron was inactivated in 1945 after the 477th became a composite group that included bombardment and fighter squadrons.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

"Jenny Rebel" P-47D 42-76347 of 389th Fighter Squadron, 366th Fighter Group USAAF, taking off on runway 26 from Thruxton airfield, England. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

T-34-76 tanks support the infantry attack at Kursk, 1943. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Terra Haute Tornado of the 344th Bomb Group after completing four missions, April 1944. No photo credit available.

 

[at6]

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A crew assigned to the 398th Bomb Group poses with a B-17 during stateside training, Salt Lake City, Utah. The crew would be shot down on a raid against V-1 rocket launch sites on 8 July 1944
Source: usaac-official

I hope that the crew survived.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

North American A-36 "M" Italy 1944

 

[Wurger]

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

With the arrival of the B-29 over the Japanese islands, the inability of the Japanese fighter force to intercept these high flying aircraft became painfully apparent. Nakajima had been investigating the the possibility of mating an exhaust-driven turbo-supercharger with a large radial engine as part of an official design study. With the appearance of the Superfortresses these studies took on a definate urgency.
The sole prototype flew in April of 1945 and plans for the production of 500 aircraft were laid down. The end of the war happened before any additional prototypes or production aircraft were built. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Nakajima J5N1 Tenrai
"Heavenly Thunder"
No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Rikugun Ki.93
No photo credit available.